Possible injury turns to a society thread.

Cool.

I am on board with too many excuses theme.

And I really hope Casino Drive runs.
Adds a little interest. A little...

I totally agree. It is not an open culture. But they never make excuses. It is not part of their culture.

I am all for holding key information in order to save face. Beats people doing things and then making excuses so they have no accountability.

Quiet Chris = Better Than Honour

Decision after the vet advises but not looking too good...



On a different note.. PLEASE STOP THE VITRIOLIC UNPLEASANTRIES... I'm unable to police the Forum adequately from here and am bothered by the tremendous lack of mutual respect being displayed the last several days.

We're on the eve of one of the most exciting afternoons available in racing and I'm amazed that I need to intercede on threads with the above idiocy and yesterday's Fat Man Fandango.

Steve

For those at home

VITRIOLIC = harsh or corrosive in tone

For the record, I love Toronto and have no issues with canadians, except the ones that play the Canada vs America card... :)

OOOOOOOOO he told you Quiet Chris

When I was like 12, so I couldn't take advantage of the many pleasantries that are provided to over 18 :)

Chris, c'mon man I'm not even through this thread yet and you are digging yourself into a hole here. I kind of see where you are coming from, but save it for the winter when we have nothing else to talk about. We are a day away from the Belmont Stakes and I don't need to be reminded that I need to lose 20 lbs. Damn beer, it's the breweries fault I'm fat.

pre-Belmont excitment build-up, thats all it is Steve. the natives are restless!

it is a downer though if this horse is scratched.

gotta' get you to Hong Kong :cool:

i just went to Microsoft Word myself.... i was in a quandry trying to find out what that word meant

Vitriolic --- spiteful, hurtful, acerbic, venomous, bitter, cruel, malicious, rancorous

-bt-

casino drive = ribbons of shame

" i don't know Lloyd the French are a$$holes"



-bt-

DRF is supporting a suspected stone bruise in the left hind.

No expert, but that shouldn't keep him out. I personally would scratch him because he probably couldn't win if he was 100%. He is a Mineshaft, and his better days are probably ahead of him.

I read about his "work" yesterday in bloodhorse.com and it said he took an "off step" at the end... I bet that is when the stone bruise happened (just speculation).

"Crossing the finish, he gave a slight bobble as if he hit a bad spot and that enabled him to finally change leads as he continued strongly past the wire."

http://tcm.bloodhorse.com/article/45585.htm

I sure as shootin' wouldn't run my horse if he has a bruise in the left hind hoof.

Montreal is an awesome city. It's like Europe but with an 1:30 plane ride.

so is Hooves...seriously have to think about a DT road trip to Happy Valley and Sha Tin someday

might be a problem, don't they have a dress code over there?

we can hit the thrift store before going to the track

Dress codes are for sucks.

One time, in Montreal, I...

never mind :D
love that place.

Sha Tin/Happy Valley? I'm in.

so that means you're in for HK?

Mrs. Bigs is a very very understanding, wonderful wife, that has put up with a bunch of my horsey trips with zero grief, but I don't think she'll sign off on that one (unless there is a major P6 hit by me between now and then :D ).

Yes this race is so exciting from a betting standpoint. I can't believe that threads on the belmont would turn into a cluster****.




:rolleyes:

And really if you want to continue this discussion, be sure to look for a guy wearing this tomorrow at Belmont...

im down...bring a live horse with us...round eye gets payed !!!!:cool:

Blame Canada!!!

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http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/hor...ory?id=3428969

No plans on scratching.

yours do...
your the GOAT....

What a great idea a class action against NYRA

Okay, let's try and bring this thread back around.

Love Big Brown, or hate Big Brown. Love Casino Drive, or hate Casino Drive. No matter which side of the fence you're on, Casino Drive not running in the race blows.

Spare me the convenient baloney about how Big Brown would have dusted him anyway. Nonsense. It's a horse race, it's not a foregone conclusion. Even if Big Brown wins by 34 lengths tomorrow, you'll never convince me its a foregone conclusion, nor should you think it.

Think of these connections... they made this race infinitely more interesting by brining this horse to America. How often does this happen for our big stage? Not very. They bring him here, he wins his first race like a good thing, gets the juices flowing for a potential Triple Crown showdown with Big Brown, and then boom, the day before the darn horse race, the horse is off.

That sucks.

When did they scratch him??

I really hope he doesn't. . . I was really looking forward to tossing him.

He hasn't been scratched, but either way, it's obviously not ideal.